On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 04:24:44PM -0500, Craig A. Berry wrote: > The testing of PERLIO=perlio exposed a recursion bug at a number of > places where iterative logical name translation is performed. In > particular, the handling of cases like: > > FOO -> BAR -> BAZ -> myfile.dat > > left us open to cases like: > > FOO -> FOO -> FOO -> ad infinitum > > where the logical name and its equivalence name are the same > (regardless of case). > > As far as I can tell, native VMS utilities don't generally check for > recursion, but they do limit the number of allowed iterations, which > has the side effect of preventing unlimited recursion. I've added > this behavior to our iterative logical name translations. Patch > below. > > The patch also brings perldelta.pod more up-to-date with VMS news.
Thanks, applied. -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
